“Mahatma, ‘murdered’ again, this time with language,” tweeted senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai. However, he was questioned for his views by others, who wanted to know what was wrong with the words used by Shah.

“Rajdeep you become a Digvijay…see the context, and ‘chatur bania’ A SMART businessman… Whts the wrong… ‘taunch maal’ to nhi bola,” replied one Priyajit Chakraborty to Sardesai’s tweet.

“@BJP4India Gandhi was a chatur bania and Modi and shah are notorious and cheater banias. They have cheated farmers of India,” one Swarup Upadhyay tweeted.